Posts Tagged ‘jobs’

State Department: Keystone XL Pipeline Would Only Create 35 Permanent Jobs
By Zoe Schanger
When the State Department released their report on the Keystone XL pipeline last month, news media focused on the report’s conclusion that the pipeline would not significantly worsen carbon pollution. The finding was broadly declared a win for advocates of the project, who are now imploring the White House to approve it.
But buried in the 11-chapter report was a less sunny detail: the Keystone
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Unemployment Rate Would be 7.1 Percent Without Government Cuts
March 11th, 2013
By Jason Sattler
One of the biggest Republican myths of the last four years is that the government has been exploding in size. The truth is that federal, state and local governments have cut more than 750,000 jobs since June of 2009.
If those jobs hadn’t been lost, the unemployment rate would now be 7.1 percent, according to the Labor Department.
The total number of people
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By Lisa Rein
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, Wyo. — The giant yellow snowplows that wake Yellowstone from its winter slumber every March are idled, waiting for the sun to make up for federal budget cuts that are forcing the park to open late for peak season.
Mandatory cuts kicked in three days before the plows were to start clearing snow and ice from 300 roads at altitudes that reach 11,000 feet. Faced with an order from Washington to slice $1.8 million from his budget, the park
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Obama vs. Romney: Jobs
By Bob Burnett
Jobs and the economy remain Americans' number one concern. While Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have promised to create millions of jobs if they are elected President, there are stark differences between their plans.
In the first presidential debate, Romney promised , "If I'm president I will create... 12 million new jobs," the equivalent of 250,000 jobs per month for 48 months. The Washington Post "Factchecker"
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Mitt Romney’s ‘new math’ for jobs plan doesn’t add up
By Glenn Kessler
Let me tell you how I will create 12 million jobs when President Obama couldn't. First, my energy independence policy means more than 3 million new jobs, many of them in manufacturing. My tax reform plan to lower rates for the middle class and for small business creates 7 million more. And expanding trade, cracking down on China and improving job training takes us to over 12 million new
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By Josh Knauer
As a software entrepreneur, I find it ironic to see people going online to rail against taxes and government spending. The Internet grew from government research financed by earlier generations of taxpayers. So did computers, GPS technology and many other technologies we take for granted today.
The Global Positioning System (GPS) we access from our phones, computers and cars was developed and is still
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To the Editor,
Democrats and Republicans propose vastly different ways of creating jobs in this economy. President Obama would do so by hiring private contractors to repair and upgrade our aging infrastructure. He believes that enabling people to work and spend and pay taxes will increase demand for goods and services, create more jobs, and raise revenues to apply to our debt. Also, this will provide efficient, reliable infrastructure to help
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To the Editor,
Improvements in information technology have made it easy and profitable for American corporations to shift jobs overseas to the emerging (BRIC) countries .
Our two major candidates for President have very different approaches to increasing jobs here. Both approaches will create jobs, but the jobs will be quite different.
ROMNEY: Bring American salaries and benefits down to a level competitive with those in the BRIC countries.
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From Moveon.org
Remember the GOP cry for ‘JOBS!’ back in 2010? Yeah, that.
Source. Note, he is being sarcastic here!
Editor’s note: To even further clarify, here is the context of the quote, from the Baltimore Sun article linked above: “Nothing says jobs like transvaginal probes,” O’Malley said, referring to the controversial legislation backed by VA Gov. Bob McDonnell, a Republican, that would have required some women to undergo the invasive
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Professor Starr writes about the "Hourglass Economy," one in which the economy consists mainly of the rich and the poor with only a small middle class. Examples of this type of economy abound. Many South American and African countries come to mind. Without a strong and prosperous middle class, the United States is destined to become a third-rate nation. America will not longer be a world power or a major player in world economics. This will mark the end of the "American Dream" and the
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